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Mediathread
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Mediathread is a Django site for multimedia annotations facilitating
collaboration on video and image analysis. Developed at the Columbia
Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)

CODE: http://github.com/ccnmtl/mediathread (see wiki for some dev documentation)
INFO: http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/mediathread
FORUM: http://groups.google.com/group/mediathread

REQUIREMENTS
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Python 2.6 (or 2.5)
Postgres (or MySQL)

In Ubuntu (for postgres 8.4, but just change version numbers):
$ sudo aptitude install postgres-8.4 postgresql-client-8.4 postgresql-server-dev-8.4 python-psycopg2 gcc python2.6 python-dev libc6-dev 


INSTALLATION
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1. Mediathread relies on several submodules.  The easiest way to download
   it all is to run with git 1.6.5+ is:

  git clone --recursive http://github.com/ccnmtl/mediathread.git 

2. Build the database
   For Postgres:
     A. Create the database ($ createdb mediathread)

   For MySQL:
     A. Edit the file requirements/libs.txt
        - comment out the line 'psycopg2'
        - uncomment 'MySQLdb'
     B. Create the database ($ echo "CREATE DATABASE mediathread" | mysql -uroot -p mysql)

   For Both:
     Edit the lines in settings_shared.py that start with DATABASE_ as appropriate
     Even better would be:
       $ mkdir deploy_specific
       $ touch deploy_specific/__init__.py
       # edit a file called deploy_specific/settings.py setting those same variables
         which will override the values in settings_shared.py
         This is where we add custom settings for our deployment that will not
         be included in the open-sourced distribution

3. Bootstrap uses virtualenv to build a contained library in ve/
  ./bootstrap.py
  NOTE: if you're using python2.5 use ./bootstrap-python25.py instead

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The rest of the instructions work like standard Django.  See:
 http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/
 for more details.
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4. Sync the database
   ./manage.py syncdb
  #create a superuser

5. Run locally (during development)
  ./manage.py runserver myhost.example.com:8000

6. For deployment to Apache, see our sample configuration in apache/prod.conf
   This directory also contains standard django.wsgi file which can be used 
   with other webservers

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Go to your site in a web browser.
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7. The default database is not very useful.  Login with the superuser you
   created in Step #4.

8. Click the 'Create a Course' link.
   - Click the "+" to make a group.  Name it something like "test_course"
   - Click the "+" to make a faculty group.  Name it something like "test_course_faculty"
   - In the "Add users to group" field...
     = add yourself as a faculty member by putting your username with a "*" in front
       like this "*admin"
     = add some fellow faculty/student accounts -- you can create new accounts right here
       (read the instructions under the textarea)
     = Click "Save" and then click the upper-right link "Django administration" to get back to the regular site (yeah, not the most intuitive).

9. Experiment with saving assets by visiting:
   http://myhost.example.com:8000/save/

10. For deployment, take a look at the apache/ directory for sample apache configuration files

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